@article{765926,
      recid = {765926},
      author = {Hill, George J.,},
      title = {Proceed to Peshawar : the story of a U.S. Navy  intelligence mission on the Afghan border, 1943 /},
      pages = {1 online resource (271 pages) :},
      abstract = {"Proceed to Peshawar is a story of adventure in the Hindu  Kush Mountains and of a previously untold military and  naval intelligence mission during World War II by two  American officers along 800 miles of the Durand Line, the  porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. They passed  through the tribal areas and the princely states of the  North-West Frontier Province, and into Baluchistan. This  appears to be the first time that any American officials  were permitted to travel for any distance along either side  of the Durand Line. Many British political and military  officers believed that India would soon be free, and that  the Great Game between Russia and Britain in the nineteenth  and early twentieth centuries would then come to an end.  Some of them thought that the United States should, and  would, assume Britain's role in Central Asia, and they  wanted to introduce America to this ancient contest. "--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/765926},
}